New Concept? What will you get done this weekend?

[Brickster]

I always like to set goals for myself so instead of posting Sunday night about what I got done I will post Friday night what I intend to get done and Update on Sunday. I'll go first. Join in if you're so inclined.

I'm trying to get a '73 Charger done for my dad so I can get back to work on my hot rod. So I would like to fab the mounts for the radiator and get it installed. Work out something for hoses because stock ones will not work any more. Hook up heater hoses and valve. Mount the electric fan. Fab recessed mounts for driving lights, mount trans cooler and fabricate duct work, hook up steering column, and if there is time left i'll start flushing the break system.
Hopefully next weekend it will be on one Kooler cars.

[BELLM]

Hopefully that trailer I just loaded with early Mustang, Corvette, Camaro, motorcycle etc parts will be empty after the Rosanky Swap meet tomorrow and I can just park it when I get home. Otherwise I gotta unload all the stuff & put it up somewhere. Most of it hasn't seen daylight in 15 yrs.Then, if all goes as planned tomorrow, Sunday I am going to get out catalogs & order shoebox parts. and relax.

[WildWilly68]

OK I'll bite...gonna finish getting the paint buffed and install all the trim again. Hopefully get the interior back in and the heater working (never has since I've owned the car) since it's making a road trip soon.

[41ChevyTrucker]

ok I'll try it...I would like to finish boxing the front section of my frame and tack in the new front motor-mount/cross-member then position the motor and get the angle right... then maybe get to the back and make the templates for my rear airbag mounts.

[mr57]

Going to a car show tomorrow. Our own club is putting it on, should be fun. Sunday me and a coupla buddies are going RACING!!! We slapped together an old S-10 with a 267 and th350. Investment total about $400.00. In the immortal words of Marvin the Martian "Where is the Earth-shattering ka_boom?"

[ray]

cool!

i'm gonna get up late, about 10, head to the swap meet, score all the good deals that are there, theres ALWAYS lots of deals come late morning! then i'm going home, i'll wrench for an hour or two, i plan of finishing putting the motor in my 50 chevy truck, i just have exhaust, wiring, plumbing, mounts, etc to do. no problem. then i think i'll finish putting the blower back in the riv, get some new tires mounted, work on the model T, head to the junkyard to look for good parts, paint the toolbox i picked up at the swap meet today, hick some crap on egay, hit the saturday cruise, get drunk, get laid a few times, win the lottery, and THEN...wake up.

[trey]

its 8:00am, im getting ready to leave. today, i want to get my drivers door skinned, and i think that will take a good part of the day, maybe not. i need to make my rear wheelwells, and start slingin lead. i got my title yesterday, so i need to get to work!

trey

[leadsled55]

rebuild my front suspention, bushings, tie rods, balljoints ect

[bigron]

my weekend is not until next wed. but anyway i plan on finishing the paint on the 31 pu. blitz black by the way! not sure what color to paint the wheels yet. will not be red i know that.

[Fat Hack]

Let's see...my weekend oughtta go something like this:

1.) Buy $hitload of new radiator hoses to try and piece them together into something that will work...filling the "gaps" with sections of straight PVC tube and secured with 10,000 hose clamps.

2.) Go to friend's pad and get drunk.

3.) Stumble by brother-in-law's garage around midnight on Friday to laugh at his spring-infested dual quad carb linkage.

4.) Sleep in on Saturday morning.

5.) Probably go fiddle-fuck with the fortune in ho$e$ I bought last night...surely only to realize I'm WAY the Hell off base...damn 'eyeball engineering'!!

6.) Drive across the continent to rebuild a Holley 600 for a buddy.

7.) Drink beer during and after said carb rebuild.

8.) Stumble home again Saturday night grumbling about no further progress being made on the firmly rooted 49 Chev.

9.) Sleep in Sunday morning.

10.) Fiddle with cut up ho$e remnants for a few hours, not really getting anywhere.

11.) Spend my gas money for the week on a few more random, unrelated oddball parts that won't help in the slightest.

12.) Give up and drink some more.

13.) Wait for the alarm clock Monday morning to call me forth to another week building towards a repeat of the above steps with different useless parts that won't fit and can't work...

(Hey, it helps to have a PLAN, eh??? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif)

[james]

Strap, tape, staple, and nail everything I own down , hoping Ivan doesn't blow it all away!

[Muttley]

Not much. I'm going to a BBQ today, there will be lots of schweet cars there. I will post some pics later. Check your local listings for time and channel.

[Fat Hack]

Shit...I've ALREADY fucked up my Plan! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Standing in the hose section behind the counter at a local Auto Zone trying to envision which shapes I needed to make upper and lower hoses actually worked out great!

I just finished putting them on, after cutting and joining them together...'twas easier than I'da thunk it ta be...just hope they work out in the end, no leaks and stuff!

Now...time to get some DRINKING done! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[RPW]

Will put on a second coat of high gloss black on the frame of my 54 Ford. Color sanding the frame... yes, Im nuts!

[296 V8]

1 sleep in
2 coffee
3 check the news
4 eat breakfast
5 dump
6 turn on computer and see if germ is dead yet
7 try posting pic’s again
8 give up on 7
9 get my ass into the garage

[Verbal Kint]

FNG goals -
1. Post some of the last '39 Merc crap on egay
2. Study for my f*ing Accounting class - yep gonna be a CPAhole someday
3. Get out to Toms and remind them about my T-bird seats
4. Do a bit of striping on a radio delete plate
5. Weld up the filler hole on my '70 c-10 and route the dash ducting
6. Strip and rattle can the tilt on the '70

A weekend of fun and frivolity for under five bucks.

swdobbs...

[J Man]

Buy a new truck, oh I did that all ready. replace the tail lights on the '48 and put some crap on e bay.

[Dreamweaver]

FatHack,

Here's my tech tip.

Take a coat hanger and bend it to a likly shape from your radiator to the motor, then take that to the parts store.

[kentucky]

This tip is not mine but I've also heard of using that metal coiled tubing to mock up radiator hoses. It's the tubing that runs from the manifold up to the breather. 'Course a clothes hanger is a lot cheaper http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[whodaky]

Working on the hood of my F 100. Removing rust on the forward section, on the inner and outer. Also removing the the central pressed molding as it comes over the front (if that makes sense). Got that done yesterday (Saturday here) and today wan tto fill badge holes on the sides of the bonnet and more rusr removal. Damn that bonnet need s a lot of work! Geoff aka Whodaky

[AV8Paul]

I spent the day hand mounting four 16" tires on newly powder coated rims. I wanted them on the roadster for the Ty_Rods Old Timer's Reunion tomorrow. I'm still looking for ribbed trim rings, but that can wait. I'll need Advil so I can sleep tonight.

[SnoDawg]

Uh lets see
Sleep after working Sat morn, clean some parts, drink some beer, Tomorrow go over to a friends house for a BBQ and more beer... Monday morn Try and make a bit of order outta Chaos in my too small Garage.. Take a short nap then go and do the work thingy at 11PM My My schedule is just packed..

[cornfieldrodder]

The X-G/F will be moved out of my house by 4PM Sunday. We will both talk to a couple of deputies because a guy has to have witnesses these days in such situations. Her out door stuff may even see it's way out-a-here if I'm lucky. i will watch a couple of movies with my kids and claen the now very roomy basement. After taking the kids home to their mom, maybe I will go check out some blues at the local hole and dance with "strange" women. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif